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Top Story: Camden Crawl Dublin interview: Dutch Uncles

A quirky quintet with a penchant for atypical time signatures and jerky pop tunes, Dutch Uncles are carving a name for themselves amongst the current wash of Manchester bands. Following the release of their second album, 2011’s Cadenza, the band started to get more attention, as they toured extensively, mainly in the UK but including shows in Ireland. And now they’re back again, this time for the inaugural Camden Crawl Dublin. We caught up with them to find out what’s in store.

First of all, what’s with the name?

Well it’s a good to have a name so that people can associate your music to it and recognise you by one group name as opposed to listing off our five full names every time you wanted to drop us in conversation, or a blog.

Now we’ve got that out of the way, you played a show at the original Camden Crawl in London last year, how did that go?

From what I recall it was a lovely surprise, something of a hallmark moment from last year.

What are you looking forward most about playing at the Dublin version?

Just being in Dublin, and hopefully playing a good gig there. We were there a while back but forgot to tell anyone to come.

We apologise in advance for this question, but we have to ask – how would you describe Dutch Uncles to a punter who hasn’t heard you before? How are you going to knock their socks off in Dublin?

We’d like to be as good as Sparks. We’ll try and knock their socks off by trying to live up to that.

And while you’re at it, do you have any exciting live tricks up your sleeve – you’ve got a touch of prog-rock sensibility in your musical arrangements so grandiose prog showmanship, we hope – or what can we expect at a Dutch Uncles live show?